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Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 8-2019 Cisgender Fragility Zachariah Graydon Oaster Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Gender and Sexuality Commons Recommended Citation Oaster, Zachariah Graydon, "Cisgender Fragility" (2019). Master's Theses. 4729. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4729 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CISGENDER FRAGILITY by Zachariah Graydon Oaster A thesis submitted to the Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Sociology Western Michigan University August 2019 Thesis Committee: Paul Ciccantell, Ph.D., Chair Elena Gapova, Ph.D. Jesse Smith, Ph.D. Copyright by Zachariah Graydon Oaster 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks extend to my thesis chair, Dr. Paul Ciccantell, whose mentorship, patience, and encouragement were needed and well received on many occasions throughout the process of producing this work. Additionally, my thanks to my committee members, Dr. Elena Gapova and Dr. Jesse Smith, whose graduate instruction in the areas of gender research and qualitative methods, respectively, produced fertile soil in which to grow and tend this idea of Cisgender Fragility. All of my committee members’ commitments of time and expertise have made this thesis a professional work that I am proud of. I have been taught, encouraged, and enabled by many fellow academics and activists along the way whose names here are the least I can offer in honor of their contributions to my professional life (in alphabetical order): Anna Bailey, Taryn Borst, Dr. Rachel Campbell, Dr. Mary DeYoung, Dr. Rebecca Farnum, Dr. Hermann Kurthen, Dr. Michael Macaluso, Dr. Dennis Malaret, Bill Mefford, Scot Miller, Dr. Michael Ott, Ian Pearson, Jeff Smith, Dr. Jennifer Stewart, Ashes Ravel, Kristine Skippergosh, Marilynn Springman, Dr. Joel Stillerman, and Zachary Trank-Zelewicz. Longsuffering and charitable has been my spouse, Lindsay Oaster, who has come alongside me many times whenever life struggles threw up blocks to progress on this thesis. Invariably, Lindsay has offered professional assistance in editing, proofreading, and formatting. The culmination of this thesis is in great part thanks to Lindsay’s years of encouragement and confidence in me. I am humbled and grateful. Zachariah Graydon Oaster ii CISGENDER FRAGILITY Zachariah Graydon Oaster, M.A. Western Michigan University, 2019 Cisgender people in the United States are socialized in an environment that shields them from gender-identity-based stress. Like the construct of white fragility (DiAngelo, 2011), cisgender persons exhibit defensive behavior in response to encountering any gender-identity- based discomfort. Once triggered, defensive acts and false claims are deployed in an attempt to return to a state of comfort and normalcy. The stress that cisgender persons feel, and the defensive actions that they take upon encountering such gender-identity-based discomfort is what I refer to herein as Cisgender Fragility. This theoretical construct of Cisgender Fragility is nuanced through intersectional synthesis of queer and race theory. Transgender and gender non-conforming persons are castigated in public and private spaces as being a danger to individuals as well as being a danger to social systems, such as the economy, sports, education, and the military. Further, transgender persons in the United States are viewed as being outside moral and market conformity. These attitudes are reproduced, in part, through the rhetoric of conservative media such as Fox News. Balancing the interests of moral conservatives and business conservatives, their discourse reverses the actual direction of danger and vilifies transgender persons as dangerous. Using ethnographic content analysis, this study tests the Cisgender Fragility theory through coding and analysis of FoxNews.com articles pertaining to transgender persons during the first year of the Donald Trump presidency. These exploratory findings support the theory and provide a platform for future research. This thesis elucidates Cisgender Fragility. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ ii LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................ v CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER II: THEORY .................................................................................................... 9 How Definitions of Citizenship Marginalize Transgender and Gender Non- Conforming Persons ......................................................................................................16 CHAPTER III: METHOD AND METHODOLOGY ...................................................... 28 ECA in the Context of News Analysis ..........................................................................30 Data Collection ..............................................................................................................34 Sampling ........................................................................................................................36 Procedure .......................................................................................................................38 Themes From the Literature ..........................................................................................40 Motifs and Elements From the Literature .....................................................................40 CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS ........................................................ 44 Theme: Transgender people as threats to the public and/or private safety of individuals .....................................................................................................................45 Theme: Transgender people as threats to public systems .............................................49 Theme: Transgender persons as outside moral conformity ...........................................53 iii Table of Contents—Continued Theme: Transgender persons as outside market conformity .........................................55 Motifs and Elements ......................................................................................................59 Conclusions .................................................................................................................101 Challenges and Limitations .........................................................................................107 Researcher Bias ...........................................................................................................107 Unknown Sources of Bias ...........................................................................................108 Credibility ....................................................................................................................108 Transferability .............................................................................................................109 Dependability ..............................................................................................................109 Confirmability .............................................................................................................109 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 111 APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOXNEWS.COM ARTICLES USED IN THIS STUDY ............................................................................ 115 APPENDIX B: CISGENDER FRAGILITY STUDY CODING SHEET ...................... 128 iv LIST OF FIGURES 1: Total frequency of themes identified ............................................................................ 45 2: Trump tweets, banning transgender participation in military ....................................... 53 3: Total frequency of motifs and elements identified ....................................................... 60 4: Frequency of motifs under theme: Transgender people as threats to the public/private safety of individuals ......................................................................................................61 5: Frequency of motifs under theme: Transgender people as threats to public systems... 61 6: Frequency of motifs under theme: Transgender persons as outside moral conformity.. ...................................................................................................................................... 62 7: Frequency of motifs under theme: Transgender persons as outside market conformity ...................................................................................................................................... 62 v 1 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION Cisgender people in the United States are socialized in an environment that cushions and screens them from gender-identity-based stress. These words mirror those of DiAngelo (2011) who makes the parallel argument in the context of race: describing white persons’ defensive triggers in response to the slightest race-based discomfort. Once triggered,
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